For the 2022 partisan midterms and the 2024 general, Greens have to recapture my vote.
I didn't vote for Howie Hawkins because of two basic things, as noted above in more detail:
The national party presidential support committee ignoring my request for the "letter of interest" submitted on behalf of Jesse Ventura;
Howie drinking the Xi Jinping Thought Kool-Aid apparently poured in his glass by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. (To be honest, I don't know how much Howie was guzzling on his own without their prodding. Maybe he was pushed; maybe he pushed THEM for all I know.)
On the former, why punish Howie? Well, he is the party standard-bearer, first. Second, he, as that, could have gotten that letter released already, one would think.
Now, looking ahead to 2021?
I have seen one thing I have wanted to see relative to the national party, and that's what it would do to Rhode Island and Alaska. The former withdrew from the national party rather than be de-accredited. The other tried to fight the hammer and got crushed.
The other is what the national accreditation committee does, or not, to the Georgia party over its 2020 platform, sex workers' rights, and "trans activists" blowing a coordinated gasket over that. (Hawkins, as titular leader, said last summer that he opposed decertification at the time, but otherwise, basically supported the trans activist stance.) Will Alaska be monkey-wrenched or dominoed against Georgia by trans activists?
Sadly, at the same time, a group of Greens who are resisting trans activist attacks on Georgia have at least some members who refuse to see Alaska in its own right. One person says he's not seen de-accreditation motions made in many years. Yeah? Have you seen state parties refuse to accept the national nominee before in all those years?
And, why did whichever GP Facebook group moderator who did it block my post about RI Greens? The censorship there continues.
I also want to see if the party gets serious about some reorganization issues.
One in particular.
Here's a great 2007 piece from Joshua Frank on what he called DemoGreens and what I've called AccommoGreens. Agree on both that issue and the "consensus"-related problems. The "AccommoGreens" issue hasn't totally gone away. The "consensus" one, with related offshoots since this time, has arguably mushroomed. The late Bruce Dixon had some thoughts on special caucuses and "Insta-Greens" as part of those related offshoots. Per Frank, the Green Party hasn't ended, but ... it needs further overhaul, arguably.
I blogged about both Frank's and Dixon's thoughts about Cobb, "consensus," and Insta-Greens before, back in 2017.
Also remember that Green Party thought leaders continue to practice censorship on social media, and as part of that censorship, don't want to know what percentage of members think the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was "really" a psyops.
I also offer some more general thoughts in my first post at Independent Political Report, which has since had a follow-up, with comments by Fernando showing he's willing to drink trans activist Kool-Aid. (That's not to say I agree with everything said by every defender of the Georgia Green Party. Far from it. That's also despite Fernando's mischaracterizations. And, "shock me," but Fernando is now becoming disenchanted with the Movement for a People's Party because of Jimmy Dore. Given how much he was trying to peddle the MPP Kool-Aid just a few weeks ago, this one is actually laughable.)
Meanwhile, here's some truth about what bigotry can be from feminist activist Thistle Pettersen. And here's Ann Menasche's letter to the GP's Accreditation Committee.
Ann raises several good points, including that the Lavender Caucus is arguably misinterpreting the Supreme Court's Bostock decision.
And, why does the LC have three of its members on the committee to work on annual national meeting details?
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